Carbonated Bath - (05)
Mechanism of Action:
Carbonic acid causes skin pores to dilate, blood vessels to expand, and stimulates the skin's heat receptors, making the water feel 2-4 degrees warmer. The dilation of blood vessels increases the volume of circulating blood (including the coronary arteries near the surface), thereby accelerating metabolism. Additionally, the carbon dioxide bubbles rising to the skin's surface provide a micromassage effect.
Treatment Procedure:
The treatment takes place in a medical bath, submerged in water at around 32 degrees Celsius. The water level should not exceed the height of the heart. The treatment duration should gradually increase from 5 minutes to a maximum of 15 minutes.
Indications:
For cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and complications of smoking-related arterial stenosis.
Contraindications:
- Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases: Within 6 months after a heart attack, heart failure, high blood pressure unresponsive to drug therapy
- Phlebitis,
- Hyperthyroidism
- Epilepsy, Multiple sclerosis
- Inflammatory phase of musculoskeletal diseases
- Incontinence (partial or complete loss of bowel or bladder control)
- Bleeding disorders, anticoagulant use, menstruation
- For 5 years after cancer, and thereafter based on individual assessment
- Infectious diseases
- Open wounds, injuries, infectious skin diseases
- Feverish conditions
- Pregnancy.